Lucius Roscius Aelianus Maecius Celer was a Roman senator of the second century. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of November-December AD 100 with Tiberius Claudius Sacerdos Julianus as his colleague.[1] Celer is primarily known from inscriptions.
The origins of Maecius Celer have attracted some discussion. The fact that the final elements of our man's name are shared with the consul of 101, Marcus Maecius Celer, have led some experts[2] to suggest the two men are brothers and our Maecius Celer had been adopted by a Roscius. However Olli Salomies endorses Ronald Syme's hypothesis that his filiation M.f. refers to a Marcus Roscius, namely Marcus Roscius Coelius, consul in 81, who married an aunt of the consul of 101, and this was the source of the last two name elements; instead of brothers, the two Maecii Celeres are cousins.[3]
Lucius Roscius L.[f. Qui. Paculus Mae]cius Celer M[...] Postumus Mam[ilianus? ...] Vergilius Staberia[nus ...], quaestor to the emperor Hadrian, is likely the son or grandson of this Maecius Celer.[3]
^Fasti Ostienses (ed. Ladislaus Vidman, second edition: Praha: Academia, 1982), pp. 45f, 94f
^Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgardiae 1999, T. 7, c. 636.
^ abSalomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 134
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